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The firebrand film director tells Kevin Maher how he kicked his 30-year marijuana habit while making his new film

Oliver Stone has had enough of being Oliver Stone. Or, at least of being that
Oliver Stone — the fulminating Platoon director, the JFK
controversialist, and the political provocateur. “The worse thing for me to
do is to try and live up to those expectations,” says the 63-year-old
director, picking distractedly through a green leaf salad in a Central
London Hotel. Stone is an 11-time Oscar nominee, and a three-time winner,
who can boast an expansive film-making career that stretches from simple
nature footage that he shot while serving in Vietnam in 1968, right through
his recent Bush biopic W. Today, however,